Top rated meaningful movies that are also tough and gritty

Check out today’s highest ranked meaningful and tough and gritty movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are meaningful and tough and gritty, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 A Christmas Carol (2019)

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

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2019-12-19 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    faithful rendition
  2. Ranked #1 for
    darkest
  3. Ranked #1 for
    timeless

Trailer

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2 Lost Girls (2020)

When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.

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2020-01-28 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    left unsolved
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unexciting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    properly developed

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3 Father Stu (2022)

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.

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2022-04-13 | Drama

Cast

Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson

Rating

rating icon 7.159
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    glad
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tough guy role
  3. Ranked #2 for
    brusque

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4 Back Roads (2019)

A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

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2019-11-15 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Alex Pettyfer, Jennifer Morrison

Rating

rating icon 5.946
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark and twisted
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tragic result
  3. Ranked #2 for
    meaty role

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5 Sisu (2022)

Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold but after he stumbles upon Nazi patrol, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.

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2022-09-09 | Action / War

Cast

Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indefatigable character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    defying
  3. Ranked #2 for
    implacable

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6 Limbo (2021)

Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...

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2021-11-18 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Gordon Lam, Liu Yase

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high-running emotions
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gritty
  3. Ranked #1 for
    showing underbelly

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7 After We Leave (2019)

A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.

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2019-05-20 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Brian Silverman, Clay Wilcox

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    neatly wrapped up
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dreadfully boring
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brilliant shooting

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8 Belfast (2021)

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

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2021-11-12 | Drama / History

Cast

Jude Hill, Caitríona Balfe

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    boyhood
  2. Ranked #1 for
    eventful
  3. Ranked #1 for
    growing up

Trailer

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9 A Thousand and One (2023)

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

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2023-03-31 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Teyana Taylor, William Catlett

Rating

rating icon 6.867
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    highly intense
  2. Ranked #3 for
    thematically rich
  3. Ranked #3 for
    huge compliment

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10 Emily the Criminal (2022)

Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.

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2022-08-12 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi

Rating

rating icon 6.738
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    believable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    creditable directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    credible

Trailer

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